{"id":2036,"date":"2022-08-11T20:10:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2023-04-02T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:58:09","slug":"the-mimicking-of-known-successes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"The Mimicking of Known Successes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to pull off a novel that attempts to have equal footing in two genres\u2014never mind three\u2014and typically one of the genres ends up taking on a minor role. Just think of all those unrequited romances lurking in the background of crime novels, sometimes through a whole series. <strong>But <em>The Mimicking of Known Successes<\/em>, a work of speculative fiction, a traditional mystery, and a romance is a walloping success<\/strong>. Earth is no longer a livable planet, and humans have long been settled on a colony located on the far outskirts of Jupiter, itself a gas giant. The worldbuilding here\u2014how can humans survive in such an inhospitable environment?\u2014is both subtle and fascinating. Layer over that a very traditional, academic, British mystery\u2014think Gaudy Night\u2014add a heart-felt romance, and you have one of the most unusual mysteries of the year. Terse and reserved, Investigator Mossa is seeking a man who\u2019s gone missing, she doesn\u2019t buy the notion that he committed suicide. He\u2019s an academic, so the search takes her back to her university and Pleiti, an old girlfriend who\u2019s now a professor researching the possibility of humans returning to Earth. Together they set out to find the missing academic, save themselves from death, and maybe even help rescue Earth from a calamity. Older is the author of the Centenal Cycle Trilogy. This would be a great choice for a book group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to pull off a novel that attempts to have equal footing in two genres\u2014never mind three\u2014and typically one of the genres ends up taking on a minor role.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[70,69,109,73,139,164],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-lesbian","tag-lgbtq","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-space-exploration","tag-star"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/The-Mimicking-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/The-Mimicking-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}